Re: THEORY: Evolution of infixes/ablaut?
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 16, 2000, 14:39 |
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 01:46:46 -0500 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
> I'm not sure either, perhaps it's just spontaneous or something.
> After
> all, colloquial vulgar English uses infixes quite frequently, as in
> abso-f***ing-lutely, or a line I read somewhere "Down in
> Tumba-bloody-rumba shooting kanga-bloody-roos"
> --
> AIM Screen-Name: NikTailor
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Would the splitting of the word "another" into "a - nother" (instead of
"an - other") in the phrase "a whole nother" be infixing, or just
reanalysis of which word the /n/ belongs to?
-Stephen (Steg)
"...and i shall see the sun, golden burning and bright, rise from beyond
the river..." ~ _3dn mmš_